[plug] ubuntu 8.10 won't shutdown

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Gavin Chester <gavin.chester at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 22:55 +0900, jasonposavec at iinet.net.au wrote:
>> Aside from not shutting down, I now seem to have to go through a
>> 2-part process to shut my computer down rather just one before. I now
>> have to log out as user, then shutdown from the login screen. Before
>> upgrading it was a simple process just to shutdown from my user login.
>>
>> Has anyone else experienced this change after upgrading, and how can
>> it be remidied.
>
> I'm not using your distro, nor probably your desktop, but surely that's
> a security feature on a OS that is inherently multi-user in order to
> prevent inadvertently killing other user's sessions by shutting down?
>
> Gavin.


I think it's because of the logout/shutdown button changes. You may
need to remove the log out applet you now have an add a shutdown
applet. When you upgrade from 8.04->8.10 there's an informational
thingy that tells you that and allows you to change over to the newer
applets, but if you missed it then you can always do it by re-adding
the appropriate applet.

Tomasz